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Packaging Tips From Practice
Most transport damage happens before transport — from overhanging goods, loose film or missing edge protection. Follow these rules and your shipment arrives intact.
1. Palletising: the basics
- Nothing overhangs: goods flush with the pallet edge, otherwise impact damage during handling is likely.
- Heavy items at the bottom, even load distribution, stable layering (interlocked, not stacked in columns).
- Use an intact Euro or one-way pallet — broken runners are grounds for rejection in groupage.
2. Securing: film, strapping, edge protection
- Wrap stretch film in several layers down under the pallet deck — the goods must become one unit with the pallet.
- Strapping for heavy single items, edge protectors under every strap.
- Tilt-sensitive? Tilt and shock indicators make improper handling verifiable.
3. Labelling
- Recipient + postcode large and on at least two sides.
- Use symbols: "this way up", "fragile", "do not stack" — and enforce "do not stack" physically too (anti-stack cap).
- Dangerous goods: UN number and hazard labels per ADR — when in doubt, read our ADR page first or call us.
4. Machines & single items
- Mark the centre of gravity, indicate lifting points, lock moving parts.
- Drain or secure oils/fluids (leak protection), protect sensitive surfaces against corrosion with VCI film.
- From ~500 kg single weight: transport frame or crate — we advise you during your request.
Not sure? Send your dispatcher a photo of the shipment — before pickup we tell you whether the packaging is transport-safe. That is cheaper than any damage claim.